The Internet has become a great place to share family pictures or stash resumes away from the boss´s view, but to date providing the online storage for those capabilities hasn´t been the most stellar of businesses. <BR> <BR>Now the top names in the sector, Xdrive Technologies Inc. and i-drive.com, are putting the stops on free-wheeling Web usage, shooing away freeloading customers from their sites and using dwindling cash to woo and beef up business. <BR> <BR>
But users dashed off the Web sites without paying attention to the advertising meant to support them, leaving Xdrive and i-drive.com, with virtually no income.
``The reality is, storage is a utility and advertising is basically ignored,´´ said Tim Craycroft, the 28-year-old founder and chief technology officer of i-drive. ``No one in our space can afford to give this away much longer.´´
Making the point a little more forcefully, i-drive has told millions of registered users they have two weeks to clean out their drives, referring them instead to competitor Xdrive.
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